20 flora indica. {Ranunculacece \ 



Sect. 2. Ekiocephalus. — Achenia lana compacta involuta, in 

 capitulum densum globosum vel oblongum conglomerata, stylis 

 nudis apiculata. 



2. A. biflora (DC. Syst. i. 201, Prod. i. 19); radice tuberosa, 

 foliis radicalibus rotundato-reniformibus tripartitis, segmentis rotun- 

 datis indivisis vel saepius palmatim lobatis vel partitis, lobis crenato- 

 lobatis, involucri triphylli foliis sessilibus basi cuneatis ad medium pal- 

 matim incisis, floribus in involucro 1-3. — A. Gordschakowii, Kar. et 



Kir. Enum. PL Soong. No. 14 ! Ledeb. Fl. Boss. i. 727. — Griffith, Itin. 

 Notes, 319. 



Hab. In Beluchistan pvope Kelat, Stocks I Afghanistan, Griffith! 

 Kashmir, alt. 6000 ped., Jacquemont ! — (Fl. Apr. Mai.) (v. v.) 

 Distrib. Persia! Sibiria altaica! 



Herba florifera 2-4-uncialis, fructifera interdum 8-uncialis, glabra, vel pedicellis 

 sparse adpresse pilosis. Folia crassiuscula. Flores pallide rubicundi, -|-l-unciales, 

 terminalis nudus, laterales iuvolucello diphyllo muniti. Sepal a 5, ovalia, obtusa 

 vel acutiuscula, adpresse pilosula, parallele nervosa, subpersistentia. Achenia stylo 

 sequilongo marcescente apicnlata. 



The terminal flower often falls away before the lateral ones are developed, so that 

 there are often apparently only two flowers in the involucre, each of which is invo- 

 lucellate. The remains of the peduncle of the first-developed flower may, however, 

 always be discovered. 



3. A. rupicola (Camb.! in Jacq. Voy. Bot. p. 5. t. 2) ; caule sub- 

 terraneo horizontal!*, foliis longe petiolatis tripartitis, segmentis plus 

 minus petiolatis trilobis inciso-dentatis, involucri triphylli foliis subses- 

 silibus, floribus 1-2. 



a. sericea ; tota molliter pilosa, alabastris et pedicellis prsesertim 

 sub flore dense tomentosis, foliis obtusius incisis. 



/3. glabriuscula ; collo, vaginis foliorum, basi involucri et pedi- 

 cellis pilosis, cseterum glabra, foliis argutius incisis. 



Hab. In Himalaya interiori alpina, alt. 11-15,000 ped. : Balti, 

 Winterbottom ! Dras ! et Zanskar ! Kashmir, Jacquemont ! Kumaon, 

 Str. et fVint. ! Sikkim !— (Fl. Jul.) (v. v.) 



Molliter albo-pilosa, rarius subglabrescens. Mizoma ssepe elongatum, vaginis 

 foliorum dclapsorum tectum. Involucri folia ad medium triloba, lobis trilobis vel 

 incisis. Scapus £-l-pedalis. Folia 1-2 -unci alia. Flos terminalis exinvolucellatus, 

 lateralis involucello diphyllo munitus. Sepafa 5, late obovata vel elliptica, obtusa 

 vel retusa, extus molliter pubescentia 1-1^-uncialia. Achenia ovalia, stylo brevi 



subulato nudo apiculata. 



This species approaches A. sylvedris, L., but that i3 always one flowered, and has 



the involucral leaves pedicellate. 



4. A.vitifolia (Ham. in DC. Syst. i. 210, Prod. i. 21); foliis 

 amplis cordatis 5-lobis subtus niveis, involucri triphylli foliis longe 

 petiolatis foliis radicalibus conformibus, cymee niultillorae ramis latera- 

 libus bis tervc divisis involucellatis. — Don, Prod. 193 ; Lindl. Bot. Beg. 



L 1385! Wall. Cat. 4695! 



Hab. Per totam Himalayam temperatam, alt. 5-8000 ped. : occi- 

 dentem versus praesertim in jugis exterioribus humidioribus, in Sik- 



